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  1. illinoisredsox
    While not a secret, I felt no need to broadcast that fact.
  2. illinoisredsox
    Another question is where is Steve Lyons?
  3. illinoisredsox
    Well the original article came out when they were on the West Coast, a trip Eck wasn't on (for personal reasons, he seldom does away games). He headed up to Cooperstown for the Hall of Fame ceremonies over last weekend; that was planned well in advance. Only the Cleveland series is an unplanned absence IMO.
  4. illinoisredsox
    Wrong sport (and you said you knew baseball )
  5. illinoisredsox
    Those are our catchers combined stats this year. Not Johnny Bench or Pudge Fisk, but not quite a black hole in context either. Although to be fair, both guys seem streaky as can be. Feast or famine if you will. Looked up the catchers OPS listings, Vazquez and Leon are 12th and 15th among the 29 AL catchers with more than 100 PAs, so middle of the pack. I was particularly impressed with that RBI stat. They may not hit much, but they seem to hit when there are guys to drive in. That's 10 more RBIs than our DH has and also ahead of Bogie, JBJ and Moreland.
  6. illinoisredsox
    Would you find the following player okay for hitting 8-9 in the lineup? .262/.306/.694, 48 runs, 22 doubles, 2 triples, 8 homers, 50 RBIs
  7. illinoisredsox
    MVP and a700 must be lawyers. They sure discuss things like they are; pick a point of view and never deviate from it. There is no profession in the world that purports to be more of an expert in everyone else's field than lawyers.
  8. illinoisredsox
    Time to give it up. In MVPs world, EVERY boneheaded play by a Red Sox player is a Red Sox coaching issue.
  9. illinoisredsox
    Unfortunately, the scoring rules say it has to be awarded to somebody. Years ago, they were a decent stat for starting pitchers. But those were the days when team actually expected their starting pitchers to go 9 innings (or more). Nowadays, it's pretty worthless stat overall.
  10. illinoisredsox
    How do you know the staff hasn't tried to make that clear to them multiple times? But in the moment, instinct will almost always win out.
  11. illinoisredsox
    Lets see, Sox scored 12 last night, Porcello on the mound today, sounds ripe for another shutout. At least no one can say they should have saved some runs from last night, they needed just about every one of them.
  12. illinoisredsox
    Don't know if they had it on the NESN broadcast, but ESPN on Monday night and MLB last night both noted that Devers on Monday became the 4th player in Red Sox history to record a 4 hit game before his 21st birthday. Tony Congliaro did it twice, once in 1964 (at age 19) and once in 1965 (age 20), and Ted Williams 3 times in 1939. The first Sox player to do it was in 1915, some pitcher named George Herman Ruth. Devers did it in his 6th career game. Not to be outdone, Williams did it in his 4th
  13. illinoisredsox
    A coach at the junior high level shouldn't have to do that, much less at the big league level. That screw up was on JBJ, pure and simple (okay, the real screwup was on the umps for not calling the infield fly in the first place). Just like Betts forgetting how many outs there were the other night.
  14. illinoisredsox
    You may be thinking of Dick Tidrow, who was at least a serviceable reliever for the Evil Empire in the mid-70s. But those deals have nothing on the incestuous relationship between the Yankees and the Kansas City Athletics in the late 50s. Notables who went from KC to NY: Ralph Terry, Hector Lopez, Roger Maris, Art Ditmer, Clete Boyer, Bob Cerv and Harry Simpson, most acquired for castoffs. Cerv and Terry were originally signed by the Yankees, dealt to KC for a couple of years and then reacquired. The attached article has a more complete list, but the bottom line was that the KC Athletics of those years were serving as a virtual farm club for the Yankees. It notes that of the players on the 1961 Yankees (one of the best teams of all time) 10 had played with the Athletics. http://scout.com/mlb/athletics/Article/Athletics-History-KC-As-Yankees-Pipeline-104402240
  15. illinoisredsox
    Maybe, but if Benintendi is pressed into playing 3rd base, this team is in real trouble.
  16. illinoisredsox
    Or what?
  17. illinoisredsox
    You mean like last night?
  18. illinoisredsox
    Bogaerts was the killer out in that inning.
  19. illinoisredsox
    Both Hanley and Moreland got good pitches to hit. You can't just stand their and take hittable pitches all the time; hittng 0-2 or 1-2 is a sure recipe for disaster. Got to do somethimg with them though.
  20. illinoisredsox
    Actually, they've gotten several tomight. Unfortunately, the defense and pitching didn't show up.
  21. illinoisredsox
    I don't know which way he would take a benching. Could spur him to get his head out of his rear or it could cause him to check out even further.
  22. illinoisredsox
    What a shock. Bogaerts swings and misses on a down and away breaking ball.
  23. illinoisredsox
    Defense has not helped this inning. One decent hit ball.
  24. illinoisredsox
    Can't see the game and I caught the gist of the first mistake; what happened in the second time?
  25. illinoisredsox
    The Royals are white hot right now. That's not an excuse for stupid baseball though. I'm not one to fire a manager easily but it might be time to fire Farrell. It's not just this stretch but the overall poor play over much of a the season.
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